Trip to Africa brings changes to Malawians and mission team
Gregg Hartung and a dozen other people affiliated with churches in the Pittsburgh and Beaver-Butler Presbyteries have settled back into their lives following a nearly two-week mission trip to Malawi, Africa, in July. They have all resumed their roles as pastors, elders and church volunteers while having a trip that was beneficial – both to…
Old Leacock PC 275 years old and still going strong
Horse hooves clacking on the road outside as people filter into a sanctuary that is streaming with light through nine colorful stained-glass windows. A pump organ belting out notes as a woodstove sits in the corner of the church ready to pour heat over the congregation. While this imagery might spring to mind an 18th…
Rev. Bill Carter leads 50th anniversary ‘Jazz Mass’ at First PC in Clarks Summit, PA
“It will be an intriguing blend of old and new. And it will be something that many have never heard.”
Valley United PC: 4 miles, 3 churches, 2 states, 1 congregation
Four miles. That’s all that separated three Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations.
Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community strives to be authentic, not unique
What do you get when you have two college friends with backgrounds in theater and combine that with degrees in ministry? Simply put, you have the Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community church in Pittsburgh. Pastors Jeff Eddings and Jim Walker teamed up to create Hot Metal Bridge, a congregation that offers a “narrative style of…
Market Square PC’s tribute helps community remember Hiroshima, Nagasaka tragedy
In August of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It helped bring an end to World War II, but it also took the lives of over 120,000 people and countless others who would later die from radiation exposure. Seventy years later, that act of war…
COR values: Community of Reconciliation Church relishes its diversity
On the Community of Reconciliation Church website there is a verse from Galatians that perfectly sums up the thinking behind who that congregation is. It reads, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Jesus Christ.” While that could be…
Trailer helps Third PC of Uniontown, PA, find its mission
Prior to 2006, Third Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, PA, had never been on an adult mission trip. It wasn’t that the congregation didn’t feel it was important – it certainly does its share to support missionaries and mission work overseas — it was just that the timing and resources needed to take on such an…
Summer Food Service Program flourishing in Columbia, PA
Vicki VanSickle knows about hunger. For a time many years ago, she was raising two boys on her own, and when it came time for a meal, they ate and she didn’t. Now, she’s trying to make sure no one else has to go through what she and her children went through. Vicki is the…
Disability Inclusion Sunday more than yearly outreach for Chartiers Hill United PC
Every congregation seems to have its own niche. Maybe it’s the free breakfast it prepares for the community once a month. Or maybe it’s the garden it cultivates that provides food for the community. Or maybe it’s the prayer shawl ministry that distributes handmade comfort items to the sick. For Chartiers Hill United Presbyterian Church…